I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

Luke would always remember the day of his drowning

Perhaps death is just a big lie.

What is life if you don't have a dream to chase?

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.